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| The Beatles – Please Please Me Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[kaleidoscopeeyes8:3320] It wasn't blatant; it but was unmistakable innuendo. That's how it got on the radio.
"Why Don't We Do It In the Road" was blatant. |
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| The Beatles – Can You Take Me Back Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I think it's one of the "voices out of nowhere" mentioned by John in "Cry Baby Cry", along with the unearthly voices and sounds of Revolution 9. |
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| Billy Joel – Zanzibar Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[DanSmerengue:1466] I always thought of the "panties" line in my head lol. I figured he must have cleaned up the obvious rhyme for the record. Glad to see it's not just me being perverted, lol. |
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| Green Day – 21 Guns Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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You didn't and don't protect anyone's freedom or anything else, fool, aside from the profits made by the elites that have taught you to love licking their boots, and perhaps the "freedom" of Israel to fleece the United States. Semper F.U. |
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| Kid Rock – All Summer Long Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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He's still white trash. White trash is a state of mind.
I like some of his music, but he is first-rate dyed-in-the-wool white trash no matter how much money his dad has. |
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| The Who – They Are All In Love Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think the "recycling trash" bit probably refers to his sometimes ultra-negative estimate of his own work. When the punk movement was breaking into prominence he thought they were the future and he was the past, washed-up, a "prostitute" as he put it. None of that was true, but that was Townshend's view in his more depressive and/or drunk moments. |
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| Kid Rock – Amen Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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binormal, I agree with your remark "I'm tired of having 'Jesus' shoved down my throat by people falsely claiming to be more 'righteous' or 'moral' than me", except that this is a lot worse than that. This is Jesus being shoved down my throat by someone who's crafted a public image and lucrative career out of being way *less* moral than me. Lyrics celebrating drug addiction, statutory rape, real rape, and casual violence are the only reason people even know who Kid Rock IS. And then he records this despicable crap in order to seem socially relevant. How utterly contemptible. |
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| Bob Dylan – Changing of the Guards Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Ty for the nice compliment, coldirons! Dylan was certainly enigmatic but as a true folkie he was always steeped in the language of Christianity, right from his first album or before. But the few albums before his conversion, you can see it gradually coming more and more into focus. This song is probably the most conclusive example of it. |
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| Bob Dylan – Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"I've been down this way before"=Vietnam
"keep my eyes glued to the door"=worry about communist inflitration
"trainload of fools bogged down"=Vietnam, again
"Broken flag and a flashing ring"=betrayed American ideals in pursuit of economic interest
Senor was written just after the Vietnam debacle and just when the U.S. government was beginning to take a greater interest in communist influences in (especially) Central America. |
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| Elton John – Rocket Man Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The text is obviously about an astronaut. Bernie presumably started writing it in a context of thinking about astronauts, and then, like the poetic mind he is, broadened it a little to be applicable to anyone whose career causes alienation and doubt, including rock stars. Supporting this interpretation is the allusion in "Captain and the Kid": "Turn you into the Brown Dirt Cowboy/And me into a rocket man" |
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| Bloodhound Gang – A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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>>o.O This sounds a little like a child molester thing..."I never thought missing children could be so sexy. Did I say that out loud?" o.O Or is it just me who thinks that? o.O
Well, obviously that line is. It's not exactly written in code, lol. It's still a hysterical line, precisely because you could nver imagine someone actually saying it. |
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| Kid Rock – Amen Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is possibly the worst lyric to which my ears have ever been subjected. At first I thought it was Steven Tyler, that would've been a REAL letdown. Even as it is, when did Kid Rock go from being an American bad ass to being a hectoring, hypocritical paranoiac with a facade of religiosity? This is garbage from the first syllable to the last. |
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| Bob Dylan – With God on Our Side Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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jakill, in the case of the USSR they didn't need to play with the stats. Everything the so-called red-baiters said happened in the USSR really did happen, and then some. This was proven when the Soviet files were released for public observation.
I love Bob as a poet, but there ought to be some shame attached to having been an apologist for the Soviet Union. They were as bad or worse than the Third Reich, so why we don't treat ex-commies the way we treat ex-Nazis is a mystery. |
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| Tom Petty – A Face In The Crowd Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It's kind of an anti-love song, a successor to You Got Lucky and Don't Come Around Here No More. He's berating this chick, saying 'you were nothing without me and you'll be nothing when I'm gone.' Not very charitable, but still a great song. |
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| Bloodhound Gang – Balls Out Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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"My job involves gettin' mobbed like John Gotti/Dressed to kill like I'm Gianni Versace"--I'm counting five puns in two lines. Has there ever been a better verse in any song, ever? |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Is all the gangster stuff perhaps just some sort of symbol for the life of musicians? I read somewhere that Springsteen dedicated the song to John Lennon at a show after Lennon's death. |
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| The Wallflowers – God Don't Make Lonely Girls Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I don't think the song is exactly sarcasm, but it's probably a representation of wishful thinking at its finest. (Compare The Who's "Trick of the Light", Elton John's "Island Girl", The Police's "Roxanne" for other knight-in-shining-armor scenarios.) |
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| Gin Blossoms – Follow You Down Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Whether the song intentionally alludes to Doug or not, the lyrics sound eerily like something Doug himself would've written. |
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| Bob Dylan – With God on Our Side Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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oogle: "the song never even makes reference to the 20 million that were killed in the Gulags in Siberia so I am wondering where this is coming from, that statistic wasn't even available until after the fall of the Soviet Union."
That is false. I don't know how old you are, but I was well aware, as a young teen in the late 1980s, that millions had been purposely shot/starved/drowned under the government of the USSR. And it had already been well known for decades to anyone who cared to look at the evidence. After the fall of the USSR, there came documentary proof so astounding that even the worst pro-Soviet sycophants couldn't dismiss it. But it was well known all along. |
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| Elvis Costello – Oliver's Army Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Sorry, Jack's contribution was right as well--the appeal of imperial adventures to disadvantaged young people. Not surprisingly, the message on the "Armed Forces" insert was: "Don't Join." |
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| Elvis Costello – Accidents Will Happen Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think it's about knowing you shouldn't be with someone who's bad for you, but losing your will and doing it anyway. It could also be an accidental pregnancy situation, although that seems like it would be a bit too literal for Elvis. |
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| Elvis Costello – Brilliant Mistake Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Sounds like it's partly autobiographical; some of it could be a reflection on the Bonnie Bramlett incident of 1979, which damaged Costello's career and reputation in the U.S. |
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| The Who – Trick Of The Light Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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In defense of we of the male persuasion...the "shadow of emotion" IS the criterion he's using for whether he was "all right." It's kind of the same thing. Particularly since prostitutes aren't supposed to let emotion interfere with their work. |
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| Roger Whittaker – The Last Farewell Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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quickmike is correct. Although the song can be interpreted patrotically, since he is doing what he sees as his duty, he obviously does not want to return and leave the object of his love, whoever that may be. |
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| Bob Dylan – 4th Time Around Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The song is at least in part a parody of Norwegian Wood. Norwegian Wood desribes a sexual encounter in very vague, pretentious terms; this song attempts to do the same while little prosaic details (like forgetting his shirt) intervene. But when this was written, there was no necessary contradiction between a legitimate song and a send-up. This song is both. |
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| Bob Dylan – I and I Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I and I--is it the disparity between what we really believe and what we feel compelled to practice? A split personality? |
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| Bob Dylan – With God on Our Side Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Hitler was ambiguous as far as religion, he borrowed from the Christian, especially Lutheran tradition when it served his purposes as an anti-Semite, and he borrowed from the Norse pagan (Odinist) religion when he wanted to justify his desire for national glory and general blood lust. He was an equal opportunity religious wack-job.
JohnDylan: I am glad that you acknowledge that Dylan's being Jewish may cause him to be biased. I have been called an anti-Semite for suggesting that the Jewish-run media may have presented a biased view of WW2, but whatever. (In order to be politically correct, one has to pretend that everyone on earth *except* Jews are biased toward their own group.)
Hll...when a person, even in a poetic context, is suggesting that non-hatred of Germans is irrational and hatred of Russians is equally irrational, it is quite reasonable to compare what the Germans and Russians actually did, no? |
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| Bob Dylan – Neighborhood Bully Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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cavern, some of the lyrics are a bit forced, but compared to "Property of Jesus"? or "Wiggle Wiggle"? Let's not be too hard on him here! |
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